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Monday, May 25, 2015

Field sketches

Sketches by C. Leroy
Baldridge.

Cyrus Leroy Baldridge (May 27, 1889 – June 6, 1977) was
an artist, illustrator, and author. During WWI, he traveled through occupied
Belgium and France as a war correspondent and illustrator.

Sketch by C. Leroy
Baldridge.

Returning to the United States, he was called up to the
border when Mexico’s revolution spilled over the border. In 1917 he joined the
French Army as a stretcher bearer. With the entrance of the United States into
the war, he transferred to the American Expeditionary Forces.

Sketches by C. Leroy
Baldridge.

There he joined Stars and Stripes, the American Expeditionary Forces newspaper. His
work appeared in every issue from March 1918 until the armistice of November,
1918.

Sketches by C. Leroy
Baldridge.

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